County Championship: 5 for Tykes quick bowler Thompson however Hampshire take first-innings lead

Jordan Thompson's first Championship 'five-fer' of the season took him past 100 first-class wickets for Yorkshire

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Jordan Thompson’s first Championship ‘five-fer’ of the season took him past 100 first-class wickets for Yorkshire
LV= County Championship Division One, North Marine Road, Scarborough (day two):
Yorkshire 159: Bess 67, Fraine 53; Abbott 6-36, Abbas 3-25
Hampshire 218: Brown 53, Barker 52; Thompson 5-60, Patterson 3-49
Yorkshire (3 pts) trail Hampshire (4 pts) by 36 runs with nine second-innings wickets remaining
Scorecard

Hampshire’s seventh-wicket pair Ben Brown and Keith Barker both hit fifties to help maintain the title hopefuls’ advantage over Yorkshire on day two at Scarborough.

A day which started with Yorkshire on 158-8 first time around saw them end it on 23-1 from 13 overs of their second innings, trailing by 36.

In between, after Yorkshire had added just one more run to be bowled out for 159, Hampshire recovered from 72-6 in early afternoon thanks to an 88-run partnership between Brown (53) and Barker (52) to earn a batting bonus point before being bowled out for 218.

Kyle Abbott took…

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